Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

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It is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime on trending criminal cases.

And this has been getting tons of airtime and headlines since Sean Diddy Combs' arrest back in just September of 2024.

Usually we're waiting around two or three years, but the feds don't mess around.

It is jury selection in the Sean Diddy Combs trial, which is expected to last about

eight weeks, and they're trying to whittle it down to 18 jurors, 12 regular and six alternates,

and that is what they are working on at the federal courthouse in downtown

Manhattan on 500 Pearl Street and I'm hoping to be there Sunday and bring you opening statements

which are expected on Monday so today we're kind of going to set the proverbial table here, tell you what's going on

with jury selection and what to expect and what could be a star-studded trial in lower Manhattan,

which would be fitting since that's a place where a lot of stars live and like to be seen.

Best guest today, a new one and a very good one.

You've got Van Nuvar Geese.

He is one of the nation's top white collar and criminal defense attorneys.

He is a former prosecutor as well.

And he is a visiting faculty member at Harvard Law.

You may have heard of it.

Harvard Law School's Trial Advocacy Workshop.

He is a top 100 national trial lawyer.

He is ranked as a New York Metro Metro Super Lawyer, and the list goes on.

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